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<p>Imperfect, limited, vulnerable—and loved by the universe</p>
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<p>When I was young, I was fascinated by the ideal of unconditional love. I fell in love, and I tried to be totally devoted. At that time I was working in an office with a group of young men. They had stories to tell about the women they had been out with, and they flirted with the women in the typing pool, but I closed my ears. I had no interest in anything but being a perfect partner, completely loyal to my woman. The woman in question, however, was jealous anyway. Although I never so much as glanced at another woman, I still got accused regularly of having unfaithful thoughts. The injustice of this cut me to the quick, and in no time she and I would be engaged in grievous arguments. My attempt to be the perfect partner had led me into being just the opposite. I was fighting her with all the wit and energy I could muster.</p>
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<p>Cheri Maples gives new meaning to the words “peace officer.”</p>
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Joan Duncan Oliver </div>
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<p>There’s a story Cheri Maples tells about the first time she saw her Buddhist practice in action. The year was 1991, and Maples, then a patrol cop on the Madison, Wisconsin police force, was responding to a domestic violence call. A divorced dad was holding his young daughter hostage, refusing to hand her over to his ex-wife after a weekend visit. When Maples interceded, he threatened her. Ordinarily, she would have slapped handcuffs on the guy and hauled him off to jail. But she had just sat her first retreat with the Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, and the experience “had broken open my heart,” Maples says. She persuaded the father to release his daughter and then, instead of arresting him, spoke to him from her heart. Within minutes, he was in tears.</p>
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<p>Dutch filmmaker Babeth VanLoo brings the dharma to TV.</p>
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<!--paging_filter--><div><img src="/sites/default/files/images/issues/v19n1/22howwelive.jpg" alt="Courtesy of Babeth VanLoo" width="400" height="226" /><br /><font size="1">Filmmaker Babeth VanLoo (right) speaks with artist Meredith Monk in a scene from VanLoo’s new film, Meredith Monk – <em>Inner Voice.</em> Courtesy Babeth VanLoo</font></div>
<p><strong>Listen to the podcast <a href="http://www.tricycle.com/web-exclusive/tricycle-audio-interviews-fall-2009">here</a>.</strong></p>
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<p>The search engine’s “Jolly Good Fellow” brings the dharma to Silicon Valley</p>
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<p>All the President's Meng: Chade-Meng Tan with Barack Obama, John McCain, Al Gore, and Bill Clinton</p>
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<p>Ravenna Michalsen keeps the dharma alive in song.</p>
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<!--paging_filter--><p>“This is why we come early,” Buddhist singer-songwriter Ravenna Michalsen says for the third time this trip, as we search for the correct turn into Wellesley College. She’s playing a show for the college’s Buddhist Community tonight, and we’ve driven up to Massachusetts from New Haven, Connecticut, where various karmic causes and conditions have brought the two of us together again for another semester.</p>
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<!--paging_filter--><p>“This is why we come early,” Buddhist singer-songwriter Ravenna Michalsen says for the third time this trip, as we search for the correct turn into Wellesley College. She’s playing a show for the college’s Buddhist Community tonight, and we’ve driven up to Massachusetts from New Haven, Connecticut, where various karmic causes and conditions have brought the two of us together again for another semester.<br></p>
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<p>To Zen nun and animal-welfare journalist Mira Tweti, Buddhism is indeed for the birds.</p>
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<!--paging_filter--><p><b>“THOUGH SHE BE LITTLE, </b>yet she is fierce,” Shakespeare wrote of Hermia in Midsummer Night’s Dream. It would be an apt description of Mira Tweti, a 5-foot, 2 1/2-inch, 108-pound animal-welfare writer and Zen nun who’s probably the best friend any bird—captive or wild—could ever have. Tweti’s exposé of the parrot trade industry, Of Parrots and People: The Sometimes Funny, Always Fascinating, and Often Catastrophic Collision of Two Intelligent Species, published this fall, is rattling bird breeders across the country— maybe the world—and challenging parrot owners to reconsider the wisdom of keeping a caged companion.<br><br>“This book, I think, will drive bird breeders to violence,” Tweti says matter- of-factly. “I’ve had breeders tell me that it’s all lies—and that I hadn’t said all the good things they’ve done. Like what? That they’re keeping the ‘stud books’ on parrots? Stud books are for horse breeders. That has nothing to do with keeping parrot species alive.”<br></p>
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<p>Artist Michael Daube turned one man's trash into a humanitarian treasure.</p>
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<p><strong>IT'S THE STUFF </strong>of urban legend: While combing through the trash in search of materials for his artwork, a young artist finds a drawing with the initials D.H. in the corner. Could it be...? His hunch pays off: The drawing is a David Hockney, and he sells it for $18,000. Then—because this is real life and not a legend—he uses his windfall to build a hospital in India.</p>
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<p>James Tu’s Zen Burger offers fast food that’s better for you, better for the earth.</p>
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<!--paging_filter--><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"> JUST DON’T MENTION</span> the phrase “right livelihood” to James Tu. The money-manager-turned-vegetarian-restaurateur shrugs off suggestions he’s engaged in anything of the kind.</p>
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<p>re: Personal Altars</p>
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<p>The altar at home, the <em>gohonzon</em>, is a branch of the temple. The people can practice even when they don't go to the temple. They can still have a sacred time any time and any day. As a minister of the temple, I can pray at the temple during the day. I sit at my <em>gohonzon</em> in my house in the mornings and the evenings. I meditate, chant the <em>Lotus Sutra</em>, and chant <em>Nam myoho renge-kyo</em>, which is our main practice.<br><br><img src="/sites/default/files/images/issues/v5n1/AltarsRudko.jpg" width="300" height="192" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 7px;">&nbsp;</p>
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